Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 61, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 1992, 7:58 PM CDT for Castro County, Texas. It was in force for 62 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 27, 1992, 7:58 PM CDT (00:58 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 1992, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Castro County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 8:27 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Castro, TX |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 93 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 634 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 212 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 276 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 27, 2:47 PM CDT, 5 hours 11 minutes before
TXZ001>012-COZ015>017-NMZ005-009-013-OKZ001>004-008-009-012-013- KSZ003-006-272045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 248 PM CDT WED MAY 27 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH FOR WESTERN PARTS OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE AND PARTS OF NORTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO UNTIL 10 PM CDT... AT 232 PM CDT...AMARILLO RADAR SHOWED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS RAPIDLY INCREASING OVER EAST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO...EXTENDING EAST INTO EXTREME NORTHWESTERN DEAF SMITH COUNTY. SOME STORMS WITH HEAVY RAINS WERE SHOWN IN NEW MEXICO BETWEEN LOGAN AND WHEATLAND...AND ABOUT 5 MILES SOUTH OF GLENRIO. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. WIDELY SCATTERED PATCHES OF LIGHT RAIN CONTINUED ACROSS MUCH OF THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE SOUTH INTO SHERMAN AND HANSFORD COUNTIES OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE. THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO REACH SEVERE LEVELS...AND MAY ALSO PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAINS THAT COULD RESULT IN FLASH FLOODING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR LOCAL TV AND RADIO STATIONS FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. TG
Special weather statement, May 27, 3:49 PM CDT, 4 hours 9 minutes before
TXZ001>012-COZ015>017-NMZ005-009-013-OKZ001>004-008-009-012-013- KSZ003-006-272145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 350 PM CDT WED MAY 27 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH FOR WESTERN PARTS OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE AND PARTS OF NORTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO UNTIL 10 PM CDT... ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH THROUGH TONIGHT FOR ALL OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE... AT 332 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS FROM EXTREME WESTERN OLDHAM COUNTY SOUTH OVER EAST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO NEAR GLENRIO TO JUST NORTHWEST OF PORTALES. THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINS WERE SHOWN 10 MILES EAST OF SAN JON..AND OVER SOUTHWEST OLDHAM COUNTY WET OF ADRIAN. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT AROUND 20 MPH. ELSEWHERE...SCATTERED PATCHES OF LIGHT RAIN CONTINUED OVER THE WESTERN PARTS OF THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE SOUTH TO NEAR SPEARMAN AND PERRYTON. THE RAIN WAS MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING COULD REACH SEVERE LEVELS...AND MAY ALSO PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAINS THAT COULD RESULT IN FLASH FLOODING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR LOCAL TV AND RADIO STATIONS FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. TG
Special weather statement, May 27, 4:44 PM CDT, 3 hours 14 minutes before
TXZ001>012-COZ015>017-NMZ005-009-013-OKZ001>004-008-009-012-013- KSZ003-006-272245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 445 PM CDT WED MAY 27 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH FOR WESTERN PARTS OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE AND PARTS OF NORTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO UNTIL 10 PM CDT... ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH THROUGH TONIGHT FOR ALL OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE... AT 430 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN FROM 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CHANNING TEXAS TO 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FRIONA IN THE WESTERN TEXAS PANHANDLE. THIS LINE WAS MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH AND WILL BE ENTERING POTTER AND RANDALL COUNTIES BETWEEN 530 AND 545 PM CDT. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED ACROSS THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE...THE NORTH TEXAS PANHANDLE...AND EASTERN NEW MEXICO. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE WESTERN TEXAS PANHANDLE UNTIL 10 PM CDT. A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF TORNADOES IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. IN ADDITION...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH TONIGHT FOR THE TEXAS PANHANDLE. THE RECENT RAINS LEFT THE GROUNDS SATURATED. 2 TO 3 INCHES OF ADDITIONAL RAINFALL COULD CAUSE FLASH FLOODING. STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. SP
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.